Deep inside a nearby galaxy, a black hole sits behind a thick wall of dust. Almost all its light gets trapped.

The discovery comes from observations of a galaxy called IRAS 07251–0248, classified as an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy. These galaxies shine intensely in infrared light because their central ...

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is behind the sun from Earth's point of view in space — scientists began planning ...

UC Santa Cruz team achieves synthesis of beneficial neurochemical in just two steps, promising to break a bottleneck in drug ...

If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, ...

What if the energy produced by wind turbines on a beautiful summer day could be stored until January to heat homes in the ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...

Meteorite ALH84001 drove scientific interest in 1996 when researchers announced the presence of bacteria fossils. In years since, those claims have been largely debunked. When NASA scientists opened ...

TOF is often used as a surrogate measurement for the presence of PFAS, due to the fact that analytical methods do not exist for detecting most PFAS and because naturally occurring fluorinated ...

The Cassini space probe ended its mission in 2017 with a dramatic plunge into Saturn, yet it continues to fuel discoveries. In a new analysis of data from one of the probe’s instruments, an ...